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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust in Stevenage is recruiting a Cardiac Specialist Nurse in the Heart Failure Service to provide expert patient-centred care within cardiology.

You will assess, diagnose and implement specialist nursing care, support education, and contribute to audits while expanding the heart failure clinic and inpatients care.

The role supports a seven-day service across trust sites, with a focus on optimizing medications and coordinating tests.

Responsibilities

• Assess and develop specialist nursing care plans for heart failure patients.
• Lead specialist nursing procedures and provide education to staff.
• Coordinate cardiology tests and manage inpatient and clinic care.
• Support 7-day service across East & North Hertfordshire Trust sites.

Job description

Cardiac Specialist Nurse - Heart Failure Service | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

We are recruiting for aCardiac Specialist Nurse - Heart Failure Servicewho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of dynamic cardiac specialist nurses. You will have experience in cardiology with an interest in heart failure to ensure patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice within Cardiology, focussing mainly on the assessment and treatment of inpatients and in the heart failure clinics to ensure optimisation of medication and arrange appropriate cardiology tests and follow up.

In this role you will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients. The cardiology department compromises of 2 Cath Labs and a radial lounge. We do a variety of procedures such as coronary angiography, PCIs, providing 24/7 PPCI cover, pacemakers, cardioversions, stress echocardiograms, trans-oesophageal echo’s and complex imaging. There is a 22 bedded acute cardiac unit.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect,andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

You will be a recognised expert in Cardiology Nursing , responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures

Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence based care.

You will be required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area.

Ensuring the provision of appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.

Promote the service both within the Trust and externally to the organisation. Represent the trust andspecialty at a regional and national level.

There will be a requirement to provide cross cover within the specialist nursing team. The role will require working at different sites across East & North Herts NHS Trust, moving towards a 7 day service.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding & starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.

Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specificationapplicantpack for further detailed informationregardingthis role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Sep 2026